Born in Wuhan in central China in 1947,Professor Hsiang-te Kung is a 75 th-generation descendant of Confucius.Shortly after he was bom,his father left for Taiwan to help revive the sugar industries abandoned following Japan’s defeat in World War Ⅱ.He and his mother and brothers fo llowed soon after.Changes in relations across the Taiwan Straits subsequently made it impractical for him to return to the mainland.
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